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    <p>I have been struggling for some time with the excel problem.I have Russian characters in my excel file (2003 version) and I want to save it to a csv.But the problem is whenever I do it instead of Russian characters I am getting ??????. After going through various forums I found out that the problem is with MS excel.</p> <p>So Now I was wondering,if I could write a VB script which would read the strings from the required cells, covert them to UTF-8 encoding and store it in a text file. I have 2 problems here:</p> <ol> <li><p>Is my solution feasible or not? I have no idea if it can be done or not? Any pointers would be help full. I have trawled through net and couldn't find anything.</p></li> <li><p>As I am completely zero with VB scripting, can some body help me with a sample code please?</p></li> </ol> <p>Most importantly, if someone knows a better way of doing it please let me know.</p> <p>Thanks spanky</p> <hr> <p>I have gone through Salman's code and tried in on my excel (embedded in it). I was facing some probs and I have modified it a bit after searching through net. The modified code is given below:</p> <pre><code>Sub test() 'Modified lines Dim CONNECTION1 As New ADODB.Connection Set CONNECTION1 = New ADODB.Connection 'Set CONNECTION1 = WScript.CreateObject("ADODB.CONNECTION") 'Modified line CONNECTION1.Open "Provider=MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\Documents and Settings\bht1kor \Desktop \test.xls;Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;""" Dim RECORDSET1 As New ADODB.Connection Set RECORDSET1 = New ADODB.Connection 'commented the line 'WScript.CreateObject ("ADODB.RECORDSET") RECORDSET1.Open CONNECTION1 ', 3, 1 Set rs1 = RECORDSET1.Execute("SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]") ' Notes: ' CharacterSet 65001 is UTF-8 ' add/remove columns and change datatype to match you excel file Dim CONNECTION2 As New ADODB.Connection Set CONNECTION2 = New ADODB.Connection 'commented the line 'Set CONNECTION2 = WScript.CreateObject("ADODB.CONNECTION") CONNECTION2.Open "Provider=MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\Documents and Settings\bht1kor\Desktop\;Extended Properties=""text;HDR=Yes;FMT=Delimited;CharacterSet=65001;""" CONNECTION2.Execute "CREATE TABLE [output.csv] ([English] VARCHAR(200), [Swedish] VARCHAR(200), [Russian] VARCHAR(200), [Chinese Simplified] VARCHAR(200))" Dim RECORDSET2 As New ADODB.Connection Set RECORDSET2 = New ADODB.Connection 'commented the line 'Set RECORDSET2 = WScript.CreateObject("ADODB.RECORDSET") RECORDSET2.Open CONNECTION2, adOpenKeyset, adLockOptimistic 'Do Until RECORDSET1.EOF RECORDSET2.AddNew Dim i For i = 0 To RECORDSET1.Fields.Count - 1 'comented the line 'WScript.Echo RECORDSET1.Fields(i).Value RECORDSET2.Fields(i).Value = RECORDSET1.Fields(i).Value Next RECORDSET2.Update RECORDSET1.MoveNext Loop End Sub </code></pre> <p>I am still facing problems while running this code. while running the following line :</p> <p>RECORDSET2.Open CONNECTION2, adOpenKeyset, adLockOptimistic</p> <p>it is giving an run time error"Cannot start your application.The workgroup file is missing or opened exclusively by another user". I am pretty much stumped by this. Any ideas. to me it looks like probs with data source. Note:- I dont have MS access installed.</p>
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    1. CORelated: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4221176/excel-to-csv-with-utf8-encoding
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    2. CODo you really want a vb-script solution? What if excel save-as command could do the trick?
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    3. CO@Salman I'm pretty sure he means VBA. Also, as you can see from the other question, "Save As" does not do the trick.
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